Apple will have Black Friday deals this year

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If you caught our roundups of Black Friday deals, you may have noticed that there hasn’t been anything listed from Apple yet. Have no fear, for the company has placed a teaser banner on its website which promises Black Friday deals. Additionally, the details of those deals have leaked. The discounts will be for Friday only, and are online-only deals.

Apple’s teaser mentions the iPod, iPad, and Mac, and the leak is consistent with this. These include $101 off the iMac, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air, $21-41 dollars off the iPod touch, and a discount $41-61 on the iPad 2. Less notable deals include $11 off the iPad 2’s smart cover and $11 off the iPod nano.

As with the last three years, Apple’s Black Friday sale is shaving $101 off of most Mac orders. That has the entry level iMac and MacBook Pro starting at $1,098 (down from $1,199), with the 13 inch MacBook Air knocked down to $1,198 (from $1,299).

While the expected Mac discounts are sweet, the potential deal that will turn the most heads will be a discount on the iPad 2. On Black Friday in 2010, Apple dropped $41 off of all iPad models. Apple is doing the same this year — only with a bonus. The 16GB WiFi-only iPad 2 will be $458, but the 64GB WiFi + 3G iPad will lose $61 — ringing up at $768.

The iPod touch also got a moderate discount last year, with the 8GB version losing $21, the 32GB model cut by $31, and the 64GB touch having $41 shaved off. That puts the three models at $178, $268, and $358 respectively.

The leaked ad makes no mention of a cheap 4S, so we wouldn’t recommend getting your hopes up there. As the iPhone is carrier-subsidized, it may not be as easy or desirable for Cupertino to slash prices on the über-popular handset.